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USYVL Development Wiki
This private wiki was created on 2011-10-10 and is designed to track/document development and deployment of the USYVL Software Systems initially developed by Aaron Martin. Overview of Services under Rainier.
The major development efforts are described in the following sections:
Scheduling System
This was the system originally developed in 200? by Aaron Martin to:
- make the pool and game sheets look more professional
- reduce the man hours that USYVL staff spent creating the sheets by hand
- streamline and automate the process of creating the intrasite and intersite game schedules
Workflow System
This was a system that started out as a quick attempt at finding a more customized way to track all the Site/Program tasks that need to happen over the course of a season. The idea was to get away from the shared Excel spreadsheet that was being used and transition to something with a database to allow tracking tasks and producing reports.
While it has not yet been used for its original purpose, the system has ended up being incredibly useful for a few other tasks that other backend systems do not cover well:
- Organizing season wide intersite tournament schedules - when one site hosts one or more other usyvl sites for a tournament.
- Automating creation of the initial event list to import into Rainier software.
For a couple seasons in about 2009, it took on a more pivotal role when the Rainier system was dropped for some business related issues, producing confirmation letters and being the primary source of Program/Site data for USYVL.
Currently (2023) we are looking at using workflow to generate "Important Dates" for the current backend system, Engage. Some of the challenges here:
- Program/Site ids change each season as they are entered
- so there is no carryover
- no clean way to get those ids without having "Important Dates" already entered.
- another report or some automated way to pull the data would be handy.
- facilities do stay stable
Donation System
The purpose of this system was to automate creation of a Donor's page for the original USYVL static web site using data from the CMI Admin tool. Since migrating http://www.usyvl.org to the Joomla website, this is done differently, so this is not longer under active development.
YouthVB website
This is a data driven feeder website for USYVL. It is a php driven system that produces data driven pages based on the subdomain requested (ie: california.youthvolleyball.com). The same data (and some shared code) drives the location portion of the main usyvl site.
Mobile website
This is the mobile presence for USYVL.